MERCY man Musa Haldarvi had a close shave on his latest aid mission to Bosnia.
Musa, of Blackburn Street, Blackburn, shaved off his beard to convince border troops he was not a Muslim fundamentalist.
He and colleagues Ronnie McLachlan, of Blackburn, and Duncan Wilkins, of Belthorn, took aid to thousands of "forgotten" refugees in the town of Travnik.
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